A few hours drive out of the Latvian capital Riga, obscured deep in a forest of silver birch, the secret Soviet military research facility of Skrunda-1 was a key component in the Evil Empire’s confrontation with the free world.

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Following the sites total abandonment in 1998, all materials of value were stripped and removed to Russia ,the Latvian government has yet to find a viable way to regenerate the concrete shells of the 60 buildings that remain.